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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about the tens of thousands of young people from east of the river who through the summer jobs program got their first exposure to a real job and a glimpse of what kind of life they could make for themselves outside of the block they grew up on IF they applied themselves?

Or the thousands of families who had thanksgiving turkeys when they couldn't afford to buy their own?

Minority business owners and contractors who got their first chance at big budget jobs and a chance to grow their businesses, after being shut out of such opportunities by the all white old boy contractor network?

And lest you forget, Barry was SHOT while  trying to get other DC council staff to safety during the Hanafi Muslim attacks in DC.

He wasn't perfect. Everyone knew that. But those flaws made him relatable to the people who voted for him.[b] Everyone has a family member who had a problem with booze or drugs, or went to jail. It's a reality for them.[/b] And they saw in Barry someone who had the same flaws as someone they loved, and he went to bat for them.

You don't need to tell me how bad DC schools were, I know. I was Cardozo class of '88. I was here. A white kid growing up in Columbia Heights, at the height of the crack wars, before a bunch of out of town assholes moved in and converted it to pricey condos. No recently arrived gentrifier dipshits from someplace else need bother to educate me about DC politics, I was here.

The covert racism in some of these posts is sickening, but it's also exactly what I expect from the "new" DC residents.

And YOU call yourselves "progressives".

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While we should have understanding and empathy, normally one wouldn't want to make the person CEO of an enterprise employing 45,000 people, providing crucial services with a $10 billion budget.  Otherwise, there's the risk of disastrous results, which is pretty much what the people of DC got.

Aside from Barry's corruption, incompetence, racism, drug use, etc., what really stands out was the way he evaded paying taxes for years.  The guy was basically a career criminal.
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